Craig Edwards has an article at FanGraphs about “The Awfully Quiet Pirates” (h/t NastyNate82). Between a couple pieces I wrote last week and a FanPost by IsIt 2015Yet?, I feel like there’s an echo. Edwards runs through the plummeting attendance, the decent showing on the field last year, and the acquisition of Chris Archer and Keone Kela. All of that, plus a division that projects to be highly competitive next year, seemed to set the Pirates for a window of contention through 2021.
But no, the Pirates “have done almost nothing this offseason to improve.